Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Up, Up, and Away

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the concepts of speed and velocity and complete practice problems. In small groups, students fly airplanes and record time and distance traveled for each flight. They calculate the speed and velocity of their plane for...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Trig Applications

For Students 9th - 12th
In this trig applications worksheet, students solve 6 word problems about trigonometry.  Students determine wind speed, angle of elevation and depression, and speed of airplanes using trigonometric functions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Force And Motion With Cars

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover that different things move at different speeds. They compare the distance a car travels on a ramp with and without a push. They push the car with one finger the first time, let it move without a push the next time (no...
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Curated OER

So Fast! So Slow!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders give examples of objects that move slow and fast. In this physics lesson, 5th graders rank animals according to how quickly they move. They create a bar graph of organisms versus rates of speed.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Linear Motion in Class Test Review

For Students 10th - 12th
In this linear motion activity, learners answer 21 questions about acceleration, velocity, position and time. Students interpret graphs of position vs. time, velocity vs. time and acceleration vs. time. They calculate speed of objects,...
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Curated OER

How Does the Angle Effect How Fast a Car Will Travel?

For Students 7th - 9th
For this angle of movement and speed worksheet, students determine at which angle a car will travel the fastest. They test 12 different angles on a toy car and determine from their data which angle is the best for speed.
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Curated OER

Wheeling It In!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use everyday materials (milk cartons, water bottles, pencils, straws, candy) to build a small-scale transportation device that incorporates the wheel and axle and the lever. They race their carts/trucks, measure distance, time...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Calculating Rates

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, learners determine the rate or time using the appropriate units.    The one page worksheet contains a combination of six multiple choice and free response questions.  Answers...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Some Acceleration Practice Problems

For Students 9th - 12th
In this acceleration worksheet, students practice determining acceleration, distance traveled, velocity and time given 5 problems with different scenarios.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Jogging Problem

For Students 9th - 12th
For this jogging worksheet, students solve a distance and rate problem.  They determine the rate a jogger runs and calculate when the jogger and a train will meet.  This one-page worksheet contains 1 problem.  The answer...
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Curated OER

Three, Two, One, Go!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work in teams conducting an experiment that demonstrates why the height of an inclined plane affects the speed at which an object travels. They record data on a chart and calculate speed to reveal the results of three trials at...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Linear Motion 6

For Students 9th - 12th
In this linear motion worksheet, students answer 12 questions about acceleration, velocity and distance traveled. They interpret diagrams and indicate the location of an object if it has positive, negative or no acceleration. They...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Longshore Current

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners are posted at the beginning and end of a 10-meter long line parallel to the ocean and are instructed to look straight ahead towards the water. The student at the beginning of the line uses a stopwatch, goes to the water's edge...
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Curated OER

Linear Motion 4

For Students 9th - 12th
In this linear motion worksheet, learners answer 12 questions including finding acceleration of moving objects, calculating distance objects travel and determining the time of travel. Students interpret graphs of position vs. time,...
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Curated OER

What is a Wheel and Axle?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Stuents explore wheels and axles and how they maka machine move. After a teacher demonstration, students construct a wheel and axle. Students explore the circumference of the wheel. They compare the wheel sizes, speed, distance, and load...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Train vs. Car: Who Wins?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders conduct an experiment demonstrating what happens when a train hits a car using easily accessible materials. They calculate momentum, velocity, and distance using the appropriate formulas. Then they write an incident report...
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Curated OER

Rock-A-Bye Pendulum

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders analyze the effects of force on an object in motion and its relationship to a change in speed. This lesson uses a pendulum to demonstrate the principle.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Momentum

For Students 9th - 12th
In this momentum worksheet, students answer 17 questions about momentum of objects. They calculate momentum given mass and distance traveled in a given amount of time and they use graphs of position vs. time to find momentum.
PPT
Mr. E. Science

Motion

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An informative presentation covers motion, metric system, conversions, graphing of coordinates and lines, speed, velocity, and acceleration problems, as well as mean calculations. This is the first lesson in a 26-part series.
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Space Awareness

Where on Earth Am I?

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
Almost every phone has GPS installed, but a large number of teens don't know how the technology works. An initial activity illustrates how GPS determines a location on Earth. Scholars then apply trilateration procedures to a...
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EngageNY

Searching a Region in the Plane

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Programming a robot is a mathematical task! The activity asks learners to examine the process of programming a robot to vacuum a room. They use a coordinate plane to model the room, write equations to represent movement, determine the...
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Keeping Pace

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What came first, pedestrian one or pedestrian two? Scholars consider a problem scenario in which two people walk at different rates at different times. They must decide who reaches a checkpoint first. Their answers are likely to surprise...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Measuring the Speed of a Solar Tsunami!

For Students 9th - 11th
In this solar tsunami activity, learners are given three images of the progress of a Morton Wave on the sun. They solve six problems using the images to find the radius of the sun's disk, the scale of the image, and the time that passed...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Riding by the Library

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Draw a graph that shows the qualitative features of a function that has been described verbally. Make sure learners understand where time is zero and the distance is zero. It may take them some time to understand this concept, so working...

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